Biography of Vladimir Gavrilov

Vladimir Yakovlevich Gavrilov was born on April 16, on April 3, according to the old style of the year in the working village of North mine, the Bakhmut district of the Yekaterinoslav province of the Russian Empire, now the village of the Pivnicichnaya of the Toretsky City Council, the Donetsk region of Ukraine in the family of the worker. By nationality Russian.

In the year, Vladimir Gavrilov graduated from the school of factory apprenticeship under the Shcherbinovsky mine. He worked as a turner, while continuing to study first in the evening school, then at the rabfak. In June, V. Gavrilov volunteered to serve in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. He was sent to the Tula arms and technical school. After graduating from school in the year, he served in it with an arms technician.

In the year, Vladimir Yakovlevich was sent to the Borisoglebsky Military Aviation School of pilots, which he graduated from the first class in the year, after which he graduated from annual courses of the link commanders. Since December, Senior Lieutenant V. Gavrilov served as a link commander in a regiment of SB-3 bombers in the Belarusian military district. In September, Vladimir Yakovlevich was awarded the rank of captain, after which he was appointed squadron commander.

In the year, Captain V. I Gavrilov entered the correspondence department of the Military Air Academy of the Red Army, but before the war he managed to graduate from only two courses. In February, Vladimir Yakovlevich was transferred by the squadron commander of the bomber of the fighter regiment. Before the war, the regiment was based at the Lithuanian airfield of the Baltic Special Military District and was part of the 7th Mixed Aviation Division.

Member of the Great Patriotic War from June 22 as part of the North-Western Front. He fought on SB, AR-2, PE aircraft at the beginning of the war, the bomber aviation regiment carried heavy losses and at the end of July it was taken to reorganize. Vladimir Yakovlevich was sent to the Lipetsk Aviation Training Center, where on September 25, he began the formation of a civil defense of the bomber aviation regiment.

In June, the formed regiment was included in the reserve aviation division of the 7th reserve aviation brigade of the Trans-Baikal Military District, where the flight and technical composition of the regiment was retrained on the bombers of PE again in the current army of Major V. Gavrilov since September 14, as part of the Bombing Aviation Division of the 1st bomber aviation corps of the reserve of the Supreme High Command.

Until the second half of November, the crews of the regiment, under the direct supervision of Major Gavrilov, made training flights from the Tushino airfield of the Moscow Region. In the hostilities of the Bombing Aviation Regiment of the Bomber Aviation Division of the 1st bombing aviation corps of the 3rd Air Army, he took part from November 23 on the Kalinin Front.

Before the Great Lucian operation, the bomber aviation regiment destroyed the headquarters of the Velikoluki enemy group, large warehouses of fuel and lubricants and two heavy artillery batteries. In just two and a half months in the Kalinin Front, the regiment of Major Gavrilov in operations near Rzhev, white and great bows made successful combat sorties. Major V.

Gavrilov himself made 17 sorties. When leaving the peak, the aircraft of Major V. Gavrilov was shot down by anti -aircraft artillery, caught fire and broke into a corkscrew. Thanks to the skillful and well -coordinated work of the crew, the plane was leveled. But at that moment the bomber was attacked by two enemy fighters. In an air battle on a damaged airplane, the crew managed to win, knocking both me, after which the crew commander, maneuvering only the engines of the aircraft, brought Pe-2 to the front line and put it on a neutral strip 70 meters from German trenches.

Under the enemy fire, the crew managed to safely reach its territory. For the exemplary fulfillment of the command tasks at the front of the fight against German invaders and the heroism shown at the same time by decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR from February 21 to 27, the bombing aviation regiment consisting of the 6th Air Army of the North-Western Front participated in the operation “Polar Star”.

In total, under the command of Major V. Gavrilov, the regiment made combat sorties, dropped tons of bombs, 6 enemy aircraft were shot down in air battles of the regiment’s air battles. At the end of February, the 1st bomber aviation corps was transferred in full force to the Voronezh Front and became part of the 2nd Air Army. Under his command, the regiment took part in the Battle of Kursk.

In the battles on the Kursk arc, the Gavrilov regiment made combat sorties and dropped tons of bombs. As a result of bombing, the crews of the regiment were destroyed by 52 enemy tanks, cars with military goods and troops, 5 warehouses with ammunition, 8 artillery and mortar batteries, 17 firing points, 2 railway trains and 7 fuel tanks. For the difference in the Battle of Kursk, the entire personnel of the regiment was awarded the gratitude of the Supreme Commander -in -Chief.In early August, the 1st bombing aviation corps was subordinated to the 5th Air Army of the Steppe Front from October 20-the 2nd Ukrainian Front, which includes the guards bombing aviation regiment of the lieutenant colonel’s guard since August V.

for the period from Gavrilov made combat departures and dropped tons of air bombs. As a result of the actions of the regiment, tanks, cars, 33 artillery batteries, fire points, railway wagons, 12 warehouses with ammunition, buildings were destroyed. During air battles and bombing attacks on enemy airfields, 46 enemy aircraft were destroyed by the regiment crews.

For the impeccable fulfillment of the tasks of the command, the Gavrilov Regiment was marked by high government awards - the orders of Bogdan Khmelnitsky and Suvorov of the III degree, and was also awarded the honorary name “Krakow”. He commanded the aviation division in the Volga Military District.

For a year, he served in the Air Force of the Polish army as commander of the bomber aviation division. Then he studied at the Higher Military Academy named after K. Voroshilov, after which Colonel V. Gavrilov, in health reasons, resigned to the reserve at the V. Military-Political Academy. He lived in the city of Gero Moscow. He was buried in the Golovinsky cemetery of the city of Moscow.

In Moscow at the address: Petrovsko-Razumovsky passage, the village was awarded with three orders of Lenin